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St. Patrick's Day Pot O Gold Greeting Card

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By Amanda Formaro

Photo: Amanda Formaro

Posted July 31st, 2007

FabulousFoods.com Recommends: The Big Book of Handmade Cards and Giftwrap: Over 50 Step-by-Step Projects, by Vivienne Bolton, (2004, North Light Books)

The Big Book of Handmade Cards and Giftwrap: Over 50 Step-by-Step Projects

Author Notes:

If you are feeling creative, this card can be put together with any type of craft or construction paper -- it's an especially good way to use up scraps as well as play with color and pattern combinations. The result will make a lovely gift card for someone special this St. Patrick's Day.

Supplies:

5"x7" piece of light green card stock or construction paper
black construction paper or card stock
tan, yellow or gold construction paper or card stock
scissors
white craft glue
construction paper OR patterned card stock papers in the following colors or shades: red orange yellow green blue purple

print the pattern here

Instructions:

Fold the 5"x7" light green card stock in half to create the card.

Use the pattern to cut out all the necessary pieces from colored papers. Glue the rainbow pieces in place first. Next glue on the black pot, then the band for the pot. Finally glue on the "pieces of gold".

Variations:
Instead of card stock for the band, you can use gold glitter. Another idea is to add little dots of gold glitter to the "pieces of gold" in the pot.

Note:
Don't buy sheets and sheets of expensive papers. We used Sizzix brand paper pads, known as Little Sizzles. We used papers from both the Pastels (40-0014) pad and the Watercolors (40-0015) pad. These pads can be found in the scrapbooking aisle of your local craft store. Ours cost $4.99 (when this project was created in 2007) per pad, each pad has 4 sheets of each solid cardstock, 3 sheets of each pattern paper, there are 80 acid free sheets total per pad. Although these papers were made for the Sizzix Die Cutting Machine, we have used them for many different projects.

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This cute paper piecing St. Patrick's Day greeting card was created by Amanda Formaro, the creative head "mom" at TheFamilyCorner.com. Click to visit Amanda's site for tons of crafts and other family related content.

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